In the midst of an established monastic life, Richard Carter answered a new call, leaving his life of 15 years in the Melanesian Brotherhood to answer a need in a busy church in the heart of London, Saint Martin-in-the-Fields.
There Carter founded the Nazareth Community.
Its diverse members--in Samuel Wells' words from the foreword, a community of faith and forsaken, wondrous and woolly--gather from everyday life to seek God in contemplation, to acknowledge their dependence on.